Final Thoughts

A few months back, I had written an overclocking report on the X99S-MPower, and I was very impressed by the board. It offered good overclocking performance and a solid UEFI to match it.

Performance wise, it keeps up with other boards in the performance category; however, where it really shines is storage. The highest M.2 and SATA 6G scores are taken by the MSI X99S-MPower. I did expect as much since MSI used re-drivers to make sure the signal quality stays high.

MSI also did a very nice job at ensuring that conflicts between devices stay low, it's possibly one of the only boards I tested where I didn't have to do much tinkering to get the system to boot to my boot drive. The one thing that could be improved is the spacing for SLI/CF; also 3-way performance comes at a price, especially if you use an M.2 drive.

I am finally able to see what I predict from my VRM analysis, I am able to see the PWM turn off all phases except two. In this case, those two are on the same PWM phase, so it can't just sit on 1 phase. The board runs very cool on idle and at full load temperatures are very acceptable. It is nice to see a product perform as the manufacturer promises; the X99S-MPower is a well-rounded product.

At $285, the X99S-MPower is considered a mid-range X99 motherboard, yet is a high performance product. It boasts some of the same features as more expensive boards, and will provide strong 24/7 overclocks for anyone in the market for an affordable yet well-executed motherboard.

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Product Summary Breakdown

Performance (including Overclocking)

94%

Quality including Design and Build

93%

General Features

92%

Bundle and Packaging

89%

Value for Money

91%

Overall TweakTown Rating

92%

The Bottom Line: MSI's X99S-MPower boasts some of the same features as much more expensive boards and will provide strong 24/7 overclocks for anyone in the market for an affordable yet well-executed motherboard.

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